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Showing posts with label poems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poems. Show all posts
Thursday, 23 October 2025

Robert Burns Art influences

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  Robert Burns and other poets wrote with Scots Voices. In the 1700s many worked to write down and collect the old Scots songs.   At a time ...
Tuesday, 30 September 2025

Revival Scots Language

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  I attended a talk last week by the Scots poet Len Pennie at Dreamworks Bookshop Milngavie Pennie’s poems have more lilting lyrical musical...
Sunday, 31 August 2025

Lindsey Hilsum Poetry in Times of War EIBF 2025

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It’s the Poetry we’ll remember Channel four foreign news  correspondent  gave a talk at Edinburgh international book festival 2025, on her b...
Friday, 28 February 2025

Poetry Shapes Us

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  While Burns loved the lassies, his legacy is much deeper and more wide-ranging poetically than his love life. Some of his songs are so fam...
Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Was Robert Burns a Reformer, a Jacobin or a Supporter of King George

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  There has been a debates over Burns political views. Its particularly difficult because Burns had to play all sides in order to earn a liv...
Sunday, 29 October 2023

Romanticism in Scotland

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  Nigel Leask rites Burns has been tragically over-looked in academic studies and the need to consider Burns in a de-centralized four nation...
Monday, 31 May 2021

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB)

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  “After the first Anglo-Sikh war in India, one of these days our great Indian empire, will stand up on its own legs and make use of our own...